Recover Your Life Sing to the Lord a
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Recover Your Life: Sing to the Lord a New Song
Multi-tasking “Multi-tasking” --this new word seeks to capture the frenetic activity that envelops the lives of so many women.
Multi-tasking Perhaps you have given hand signals to your family while yourself are preparing a meal and are simultaneously talking on your cell phone.
Multi-tasking Have you recently done several things at the same time?
Multi-tasking – the very technology that serves us – the cell phone, instant and text messaging, e-mail – delivers more requests, more tasks, more tests of our capacity to get it all done.
Multi-tasking So we do more and, if we can, we do several things at once.
At the center of such a busy life, a deep fatigue and profound weariness can empty our souls. There is simply not enough time to enjoy God, family and neighbor.
The frantic pace becomes a neverending cycle of “the same ol’, same ol’” over and over. Have you been there? Are you there now?
Where can our souls be refreshed? Where can we be made new?
Not in better time management, not in greater willpower, not in some principle, but rather in the person of Jesus Christ, there is newness and lifegiving rest.
This person, Jesus Christ, daily invites each of us into His presence. His clear and compassionate voice calls us away from endless activity to lifegiving, liferenewing rest:
Matthew 11: 28 -30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. ”
This is the place to “recover your life. ”
At His feet and in His presence … Each of us can simply “Rest on Christ the King. ” As we rest in Him, all His gifts flow to us: forgiveness, righteousness, innocence.
These gifts flow from baptismal waters, from Christ’s healing voice in sacred Scripture, from the table where Christ gives Himself.
We are new When we “Rest on Christ the King”, the same ol’, same ol’ is gone. We are now new. Every day is new – because our sins are forgiven, new because we “Rest on Christ the King. ”
Earth and All Stars Now, we can, as the poet writes: “Sing to the Lord a New Song. ” Earth and All Stars LSB 817; LW 438 stanza 7
The glorious grace of God in Christ makes our new song authentic and spontaneous.
From death to life The wonderful truth is this: Christ, the King, has done every key task, key to our soul and life.
From Death to Life His Incarnation, innocent life, atoning death, and glorious resurrection and ascension have taken us from the same ol’ to the new, from death to life.
We recover our life; for now, busy schedules cannot consume us.
Secure Our very soul, the center of our being, experiences rest in the arms of a loving, living Savior. Secure in His perfect saving work for us, the many tasks, even the important ones, take on a different character.
We live, work, and play now as the children of God who give every task to Jesus’ guidance.
Gracious will He who gives us life will permit us to do what is in accord with His good and gracious will. When exhausted, time and depleted energy having left tasks undone, we are still at rest and at peace.
The Lord has done all things well for us. The key tasks are complete. In Christ, our life is safe and secure. Salvation with all its benefits flows from Christ, the King.
Rejoice Multi-tasking! You are freed from its consuming nature. Rather, rejoice, for we know that Christ has done all things, all tasks – for you!
Prayer Dear Lord, help us to give all of our tasks to You. Give us that peace and rest that we look for in our busy lives. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Acknowledgements All scripture is NIV Recover Your Life – Sing to the Lord a New Song – written by Linda Wenthe Published by Lutheran Women’s Missionary League in the Meeting and Event Planner, 2007 -2009, Devotion #21
